Patents by Inventor Thomas Willoughby Richardson

Thomas Willoughby Richardson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9228635
    Abstract: An apparatus and system for retaining and installing rivets into a belt fastener includes a collated rivet strip comprising connected upper and lower strips and retaining a predetermined configuration of rivet heads therebetween. The rivet strip is used in conjunction with a guide block assembly having top and bottom portions interlocked together. The top portion contains studs aligning with the rivet heads to assist the release of the rivet head from the rivet strip, seating the rivets in pilot holes of the lower portion of the guide block assembly for further driving through the belt fastener and into the belt material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Conveyor Accessories, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Willoughby Richardson, Robert Richard Jennings
  • Patent number: 8985426
    Abstract: A fastener driver, fastener driver assembly and method for operating a fastener driver. The fastener driver includes a shoulder linking a neck to a head, where the shoulder includes a cross-sectional shoulder shape having small and large cross-sectional sections that can be inserted into an opening in a nose piece. The user can then rotate the fastener driver and the larger cross-sectional portions of the shoulder can block the fastener driver assembly from advancing out of the opening. The fastener driver assembly increases the speed of operation by including a plurality of pins on a head of the fastener driver to allow the simultaneous fastening of a plurality of fasteners, and by being adapted to conveniently insert into a conventional power tool such as an air hammer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Conveyor Accessories, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Willoughby Richardson, Robert Richard Jennings
  • Publication number: 20130105542
    Abstract: A fastener driver, fastener driver assembly and method for operating a fastener driver. The fastener driver includes a shoulder linking a neck to a head, where the shoulder includes a cross-sectional shoulder shape having small and large cross-sectional sections that can be inserted into an opening in a nose piece. The user can then rotate the fastener driver and the larger cross-sectional portions of the shoulder can block the fastener driver assembly from advancing out of the opening. The fastener driver assembly increases the speed of operation by including a plurality of pins on a head of the fastener driver to allow the simultaneous fastening of a plurality of fasteners, and by being adapted to conveniently insert into a conventional power tool such as an air hammer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Willoughby Richardson, Robert Richard Jennings
  • Patent number: 8403139
    Abstract: An apparatus and system for retaining and installing rivets into a belt fastener includes a collated rivet strip comprising connected upper and lower strips and retaining a predetermined configuration of rivet heads therebetween. The rivet strip is used in conjunction with a guide block assembly having top and bottom portions interlocked together. The top portion contains studs aligning with the rivet heads to assist the release of the rivet head from the rivet strip, seating the rivets in pilot holes of the lower portion of the guide block assembly for further driving through the belt fastener and into the belt material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Conveyor Accessories, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Willoughby Richardson, Robert Richard Jennings
  • Publication number: 20120228170
    Abstract: An apparatus and system for retaining and installing rivets into a belt fastener includes a collated rivet strip comprising connected upper and lower strips and retaining a predetermined configuration of rivet heads therebetween. The rivet strip is used in conjunction with a guide block assembly having top and bottom portions interlocked together. The top portion contains studs aligning with the rivet heads to assist the release of the rivet head from the rivet strip, seating the rivets in pilot holes of the lower portion of the guide block assembly for further driving through the belt fastener and into the belt material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas Willoughby Richardson, Robert Richard Jennings
  • Publication number: 20120227231
    Abstract: An apparatus and system for retaining and installing rivets into a belt fastener includes a collated rivet strip comprising connected upper and lower strips and retaining a predetermined configuration of rivet heads therebetween. The rivet strip is used in conjunction with a guide block assembly having top and bottom portions interlocked together. The top portion contains studs aligning with the rivet heads to assist the release of the rivet head from the rivet strip, seating the rivets in pilot holes of the lower portion of the guide block assembly for further driving through the belt fastener and into the belt material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas Willoughby Richardson, Robert Richard Jennings